{"id":15505,"date":"2011-02-03T14:17:12","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T20:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=15505"},"modified":"2011-02-03T01:34:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T07:34:59","slug":"found-buried-alive-34000-year-old-organisms-resurrected-for-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/found-buried-alive-34000-year-old-organisms-resurrected-for-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Found: Buried Alive! 34,000-Year-Old Organisms. Resurrected for Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/livescience\/20110113\/sc_livescience\/34000yearoldorganismsfoundburiedalive\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/lthumb.a585574bfb666248f20b83974b9a222a.jpeg\" alt=\"photo credit Michael Timofeeff\" title=\"photo credit Michael Timofeeff\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15506\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It was actually a very big surprise to me,&#8221; said Brian Schubert, who discovered ancient bacteria living within tiny, fluid-filled chambers inside the salt crystals.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Schubert, now an assistant researcher at the University of Hawaii, said the bacteria &#8211; a salt-loving sort still found on Earth today &#8211; were shrunken and small, and suspended in a kind of hibernation state.<br \/>\n&#8220;They&#8217;re alive, but they&#8217;re not using any energy to swim around, they&#8217;re not reproducing,&#8221; Schubert told OurAmazingPlanet. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/livescience\/20110113\/sc_livescience\/34000yearoldorganismsfoundburiedalive\" class=\"external external_icon\">They&#8217;re not doing anything at all except maintaining themselves.<\/a>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This sounds more like <em>Groonkus sapiens<\/em> than an ancient bacteria. <\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/livescience\/20110113\/sc_livescience\/34000yearoldorganismsfoundburiedalive\" class=\"external external_icon\">yahoo news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It was actually a very big surprise to me,&#8221; said Brian Schubert, who discovered ancient bacteria living within tiny, fluid-filled chambers inside the salt crystals. [&#8230;] Schubert, now an assistant researcher at the University of Hawaii, said the bacteria &#8211; a salt-loving sort still found on Earth today &#8211; were shrunken and small, and suspended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,9],"tags":[2778,3893,3894,346,3897,1406,3892,3895,3896,2716],"class_list":["post-15505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-science","tag-archaeologists","tag-bacteria","tag-buried-alive","tag-found","tag-geology","tag-lost-and-found","tag-old-critters","tag-preserved-in-salt","tag-professor-brian-schubert","tag-strange-critters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15508,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15505\/revisions\/15508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}